Word: neurologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlson was born to a healthy Minnesota seamstress and a factory stoker. As often occurs, something had happened to his brain. Professor Bronson Crothers, Harvard neurologist & pediatrician, tells his students: "It is probable that injury of the central nervous system during birth, or immediately thereafter, accounts for more than half of the deaths of viable babies. Furthermore, it is almost certain that such injuries are responsible for the disability of more children suffering from organic diseases of the nervous system than any other single etiologic factor except infantile paralysis...
President Wilson's was but one of the mighty minds whose disintegration the late Professor Francis Xavier Dercum, Philadelphia neurologist, managed to retard. Of all such cases, and of many a pettier one. Professor Dercum kept records. His filing cabinets, like the files of most physicians, described the secret weaknesses and vices of his clients, became invaluable to historians and blackmailers. Professor Dercum died suddenly last year, as he opened proceedings of the American Philosophical Society(TIME, May 4). He had been forethoughtful. In his will he instructed Mrs. Dercum to destroy every case record...
...Beverly Randolph Tucker. Richmond, Va. neurologist, advised President Hoover to appoint a National Commission which would prevent sports becoming too rough for human anatomy to withstand...
Died. Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, 74, president of the American Philosophical Society (oldest U. S. scientific association, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin), discoverer of the painful fatty disease adiposis dolorosa, an eminent neurologist; of heart disease; in Philadelphia, as he was sitting in Franklin's "ladder-chair"* and about to open the Society's most ambitious program, a survey, by three dozen speakers, of the current world...
...scientists announced last week that they had developed a horse serum useful against infantile paralysis. Heretofore the best treatment for the disease has been "convalescent serum" taken from a person who has recently recovered from infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum has been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter, neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the disease. It has even cured them when given quickly after they were infected...